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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"entrenchment"”.
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Essays on Executive Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.
… competition in the external CEO market, or entrenchment - rent extraction by CEOs from captured boards. We attempt to provide an alternate explanation for the recent growth in CEO pay. We estimate the compensating differentials in CEO pay for increasing risk of dismissal. Our estimates …
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Two essays on analyst bias and management entrenchment
… However, the relationship between managerial entrenchment and analyst bias has not been explored. In my first essay, I hypothesize that while analysts strike a balance between personal reputation and revenue generation for their employers, entrenched managers of covered firms are more likely …
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Beleaguered resonance: Loyalist entrenchment and division in the early troubles, 1963–1985
<p>Taking as a starting point the framework that the Northern Ireland Troubles were largely fought on confessional sectarian, ethno-national grounds, this essay will analyze the internal and external forces that incited Ulster Protestant political responses from the premiership of Terence O’Neill, …
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Two Essays on Capital Structure Decisions of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Entrenchment and Ethical Corporate Citizenship
… of two essays on the impact of managerial entrenchment and ethical corporate citizenship on capital structure decisions of the firm. The first essay examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility and capital structure decisions of firms. Agency conflicts and …
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Transfer of jurisdiction for education: A paradox in regard to the constitutional entrenchment of Indian rights to education and the existing treaty No. 3 rights to education.
Education, to date, has failed Indian people. Shortfalls in education provided to Indian people, brought about by constitutionally sanctioned discrimination under s. 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 and made operant by the Indian Act, 1876 and a boarding school system, is well documented in the …
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Do classified boards protect top management? : evidence from shareholder proposals
… between classified boards and managerial entrenchment by applying a panel regression discontinuity design to shareholder proposals on board declassification. We focus on shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in order to provide a causal estimate of the impact …
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Essays in financial regulation and corporate law
… Based on this analysis, we put forward an entrenchment index based on six provisions - four "constitutional" provisions that prevent a majority of shareholders from having their way and two "takeover readiness" provisions that boards put in place to be ready for a hostile takeover. We find …
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Georgia: Frozen Conflict and the Role of Displaced Persons
… of the displaced community in the conflict's entrenchment. Specifically, it seeks to answer the question: why do certain conflicts go unresolved for so long, and what role do refugees play in this resolution resistance?</p> <p>The paper is based on field research conducted in Georgia, …
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Beyond party politics : to what extent, if any, are there unexpected democracy deepening consequences of one-party dominance in South Africa?
… itself are all factors contributing to the entrenchment of the status quo.
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Two essays on capital structure
… structure. Essay two examines how managerial entrenchment, defined here as the extent to which managers can act in their self-interest, influences the levels of and changes in debt ratios. Consistent with prior research, I find that entrenched managers prefer lower leverage. Analyses of …
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Framing of the Roles of Academic Libraries in Lithuania (Discourse Analysis) /
… of roles of libraries. It is stated that the entrenchment and stability of the framed roles of academic libraries is subject to the support and aid rendered by the institutional powers. The stability of the roles of Lithuanian academic libraries is to the greatest extent influenced by the …
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Estudio y formulación de operadores de cambio sobre bases de creencias Horn
… bajo lógica Horn, nos referimos a la epistemic entrenchment Horn contraction y su condición (HC ), obteniendo como resultado, una forma aún más restringida a la ya existente para epistemic entrenchment Horn contraction, y con el objetivo de que la nueva operación de contracción Horn (modificada) …
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Argument revision and its role in dialogue
… change, but without requiring a pre-determined entrenchment ordering to establish minimality.<br/>In the first part of the thesis, a model for argument revision is defined and described. Specified in terms of the ASPIC\+ framework for argumentation, the model is divided into two main concepts: …
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Safeguarding the illegal rethinking the interface between labour and immigration laws
… with little protection. Despite constitutional entrenchment of fundamental labour rights, many well-deserving workers are disentitled from important labour protections because their employment contract violates immigration laws. Unauthorized workers are formally excluded from access to certain …
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Spatial Analysis and Actor-Network Theory: A multi-scalar analytical study of the Chumash rock art of South-Central California
… and connectivity and study its topographic entrenchment, this research conceptualises rock art’s networks. To conduct this research, I collated a large body of spatial and descriptive information for 254 rock art sites and associated archaeology. Spatial analyses were performed at multiple …
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A compliance study of secretarial roles in organizations
… normatively controlled is a description of an entrenchment in a traditional role for a large group of workers who are hindered in their attempts to reach goals which are more supportive of their societal role and recent status attainments. The congruency of moral involvement and normative power …
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
… index and Bebchuk, Cohen, and Ferrell (2004) entrenchment index, as proxies for the quality of shareholder-rights protection, I provide evidence that firms with better shareholder rights protection outperform those with weaker rights protection. Results indicate that the weaker the rights …
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Three essays on ownership structure and firm focus: The impact of ownership structure on the corporate sell-off decision; The long term impact on the firm from large sell-offs; The relationship between ownership structure, firm focus, and Tobin's Q.
… structure through an alignment effect and an entrenchment effect. The alignment effect claims that as inside ownership increases, the interests of inside and outside owners are aligned which encourages decision making that maximizes the firm's value. The entrenchment effect argument reasons …
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Essays in political economy
… second chapter is a theoretical investigation of entrenchment and encroachment of rulers. It studies the strategic interaction between competition and ratchet effect incentives in a coalition-formation game of incomplete information. Rulers require the support of a subset of politically powerful …
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Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
… job loss announcements and changes in management entrenchment.
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